Maple Leaves20"x24" oil on wood board

Far be it from me to paint something out of patronage. I mean, just for the heck of it or just to impress someone. I love Canada, the plain and simple truth. The politics sucks, the First Nations issues are shameful and the list goes on but the land...wow, the land is flawless. You need to discover it, maybe again or maybe for the first time. Get in your car, drive. Don't fly, just drive. See it, experience it, love it. Canada.

This is me at Holly and Roy's cottage painting sketch canvases of Canoe Lake in the summer of 2011.

This sketch above became this finished painting below

The Pine Tree Painter.

How did I become known as the Pine Tree Painter? You could say I paint a lot of Pine Trees, that would be true. I paint a lot of other things too, but Pine Trees, Spruce Trees, Birch and others seem to be a continuous string in what i do. I just like the way they stand there like a custodian of the land. or a greeter to nature. So, I continue down the path with the Pine Tree Painter name on my head, It's ok. Robert McAffee